Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1887-11-26
The MILK IN THE cocoANu1.


In accepting the resignation ofCom
missioner Sparks, President Cleveland
'ndo;ses the Sparks policy in the follow
ing language:
The interest you have shown in the
operation Of the land department, and
your jealous endeavor 70 saw and prn
tect the public lands for settlers in goud
faith, induces me to believe that you
~ill be pleased to receive the assurance
't:at this policy, upon which we are ali
pursued, with due regard, how
yer, for the law and the judg-
ment of the courts, by which We
may be at times unwillingly restrained.
nut which we cannot and ought not to
resist. l desire to heartily acknowledge
the value Of your services in tine I'M,
proved administration Of the land de
partment which has been reached, and
% assure you of my appreciation Of the
rugged and unyielding integrity which
has characterized your official conduct.
Cleveland will meyer know how these
sentences, intended to mollify the frey
Sparks, wi CRAZE upon the ears Of ives
fern settlers. His utterance of them is ii
recentirnlation Of the fact that he is
totally ignorant of the existing condition
Of things in the west. "Your Jealous
endeavor to save and protect the pub
lie lands" and "this policy will continue
TO be steadfastly pursued" Here is
craftsmanship for you'll An officer who
has been Jealous and whose policy is
admitted by the chief executive to be
entirely just and proper, is thus forced
out Of ofhce-for what? II he was
carrying out the identical land policy
which pleases Mr.. Cleveland and which
he fully indorses, why make a change
in the land department?
A few days before Mr.. Cleveland
wrote his letter accepting Sparks res.
ignation, Mr.. Lamar IN all interview
SAID
Mr.. Sparks resignation will involve
no detection nor abatement from the
policy which President Cleveland has
established with reference to the pres
ervaticn Of our public lands from illegal
appropriation by corporations and land
SPECTATORS. MI. Lamar then paid
tribute to President Cleveland as the
actual author of the land reforms which
had been %inaugurated by this admins
SrofSoO Sc o~onnrdnnoo with tho ,vol1
known policy Of the Democratic party
Here we have it from high authority
that Mr.. Cleveland Is "the actual author
Of the land reforms which Sparks wa.
endeavoring to carry out; and yet the
chief business of Mr.. Lamar for the
past two and a half years has been tc
overrule Sparks; and in overriding
Sparks he was undolng the very things
which both he (Lan,ar) and Mr.. Cleve'
land nowsay should not be undone.
So long as Sparks struck at the poor
devil who is trying TO acquire a home
on the western prairies, he was unmo.
Tested /; but when he began to strike a,
the great corporations he was asked tc
resign. That is the long and the short
Of the whole business. Mr.. Lama,
calls it INSTRUMENTATION" and Mr.
Cleveland agrees with him ; but it dom,
require IN overplus Of good common
horse sense to see that Sparks had the
temerity to step on corporation toes,
and the CORPORATIONS had begun to kick.
The headquarters Of these corporations
is New York and New York IS necessary
to the success Of Mr.. Cleveland's ambi,
tons in 1883.
There is one thing the people Of Da'
kota cau never forget, and that is that
Mr.. Sparks was not asked tn resign on
accoun, of his outrages against Dakota
settlers.